Grimes apologizes to Tannehill, says Miko’s opinions are not his

Brent Grimes found himself apologizing to quarterback Ryan Tannehill on Wednesday, even though Grimes said he wasn’t certain what he was apologizing for.

Tannehill was.

Grimes’ controversial wife, Miko, had amped up her longstanding criticism of the quarterback by saying the team “hates” him and calling him a “bum.” Both Tannehill and Grimes attempted to defuse the potentially divisive situation in their first comments since they were tweeted, with Tannehill saying Grimes “came up to me and apologized for the whole incident.”

But Grimes said since he doesn’t use Twitter, “I didn’t even know what happened.

“I’ve said this plenty of times: My wife is my wife,” Grimes said. “She talks, that’s what she says. We don’t speak the same thing. That’s her opinion.”

Although Grimes felt the need to smooth things over with Tannehill, he wasn’t about to make apologies for Miko’s comments publicly, deflecting questions on whether the tweets reflect poorly on him or could be construed as opinions shared by both members of the family.

Of particular interest were Miko’s contentions that she knew the Dolphins were in for a bad day against Indianapolis because the offense failed to complete any passes in the two-minute drill in practice. Since practices are closed, that information could only come from a participant. Asked if he was that participant, Brent said, “I don’t know where she got it from.”

The topper to a bizarre situation, even by Dolphins standards: Interim coach Dan Campbell said the team did not practice the two-minute drill last week.

Campbell said he spoke with both players and is convinced “the locker room is fine.

“We’re off to New England,” he said, borrowing from Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s bag of stock answers.

Campbell said he believes Tannehill has the respect of his teammates. Tannehill agreed.

“I feel I have support,” Tannehill said.

Grimes said of Tannehill: “That’s my guy. That’s my teammate.”

The situation created a circus atmosphere in the locker room. As Tannehill spoke to reporters, defensive end Damontre Moore, who like Tannehill attended Texas A&M, attempted to make light of things by taking a reporter’s microphone and asking the quarterback if he felt “blessed and fortunate … to have a beautiful specimen like myself as a teammate.”

“No,” Tannehill said.

The Dolphins posted the video of Grimes’ interview session almost immediately, then took it off their site. As Grimes spoke, players near his locker loudly hooted and hollered, with one telling him he should plead the fifth.

Speaking of noise, Tannehill took issue with a question that this time, the “noise” wasn’t coming from outside the locker room, but inside, since it was from a teammate’s wife.

“It’s as outside as outside can get,” he said.

Grimes contended the situation hasn’t been a distraction.

“It creates a distraction to you guys,” he told reporters. “You could see, I don’t have a problem in the locker room.”

Tannehill disagreed on the distraction issue.

“Honestly, at this point, I’ve heard what she said and I don’t really want to give it the time of day,” Tannehill said. “It doesn’t affect what I think about myself, the way I go about my business and prepare to win games.

“So the saddest part about the whole thing is we have to answer questions about it and it’s becoming a distraction to myself and this organization, this team.”

The Miami Herald reported that Brent had been asked at least five times to tone down his wife, who last season wrote a diary for The Post. Asked if the organization has an issue with her comments, Brent said, “I didn’t say anything, so I don’t see what the deal is.”

[…] Moore, a third-round draft choice of the Giants in 2013, also struck an odd note late last season in the Dolphins’ locker room. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill was addressing a serious situation involving his relationship with cornerback Brent Grimes — Grimes’ wife had ripped Tannehill on Twitter. Moore barged in. Either not recognizing the nature of Tannehill’s talk with the media or not concerned about it, Moore took a reporter’s microphone and pretended to interview Tannehill, asking him if he felt honored to be teammates with a “beautiful specimen” such as himself. […]